{"id":118930,"date":"2022-06-26T01:25:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118930"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:55:13","slug":"poem-17-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-17-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 17. Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">It&#8217;s been a very long day <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">for a very long time<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Scratching at the door to get out <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">is always a possibility.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Don&#8217;t cook bacon.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Don&#8217;t become bacon.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Don&#8217;t cut yourself.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Always wear pants.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Keep your tamber light.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Do not. Do not tease.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">She has no mercy.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">It&#8217;s been a very long day.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Stay on your two feet.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Wear pajamas.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Do not look her in the eyes.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Scratching at your flesh <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">is a definite.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Do not beg. Do not beg. Do not beg.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">If you want to keep her sleeping <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Do not beg.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">She smells your need. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">She will get to you <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">if you want her to.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">You do not want her to.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Even if you think you do, you don&#8217;t. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">She doesn&#8217;t want to get to you<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">but if you want her to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">She absolutely will not stop.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">It&#8217;s been a very long day<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">for a very long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I feel her stirring.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">The sun is millennia from setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_220625_192508_690.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very long day for a very long time Scratching at the door to get out is always a possibility. Don&#8217;t cook bacon. Don&#8217;t become bacon. Don&#8217;t cut yourself. Always wear pants. Keep your tamber light. Do not. Do not tease. She has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119141,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118930\/revisions\/119141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}